Lab tests CPT 85610 Outpatient

PT/INR blood test cost in Oxnard, CA

In Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA, 3 hospitals list a cash price for prothrombin time (PT/INR) clotting test: from $5.59 to $25.75, with a median of $5.90. The lowest listed price is at Dignity Health — $0.31 less than the median here. Across California, the median is $47.70 at 164 hospitals.

Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 85610, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Feb 28, 2026 and Sep 1, 2026.

Lowest$5.59Dignity Health
Median$5.90half pay less
Highest$25.75in this market
Difference4.6×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA.

median
Lowest $5.59Highest $25.75

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Dignity Health lowest Camarillo, CA RL-A-PT INHIB 2003260 $5.59 $13.46 $3.64–$14.63 58% Feb 28, 2026
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Dignity Health Oxnard, CA · (805) 988-2500 RL-A-PT INHIB 2003260 $5.90 $13.46 $3.64–$14.63 56% Feb 28, 2026
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Dignity Health Camarillo, CA PROTHROMBIN TIME $7.13 $17.16 $4.29–$17.16 58% Feb 28, 2026
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Dignity Health Oxnard, CA · (805) 988-2500 PROTHROMBIN TIME $7.52 $17.16 $4.29–$17.16 56% Feb 28, 2026
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Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center Thousand Oaks, CA · (805) 497-2727 PROTIME $25.75 $25.75 $3.86–$25.75 — Sep 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $5.59, median $5.90, highest $25.75 — a 4.6× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $5.75. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 2 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

The prothrombin time (PT) test measures how long it takes blood to clot, and is reported with the INR, a standardized number. It is used to monitor warfarin and to check clotting before surgery or with liver disease.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the PT and INR result. The blood draw is often a separate charge; a fingerstick home or clinic INR check may be billed differently.

4 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 85610 ($34.80). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Dignity Health Camarillo, CA2253E RL-A-LUPUS RFLX 3017009 $2.77 file
Dignity Health Camarillo, CA1206M RL-A-ANTI PHOS 3017157 $2.91 file
Dignity Health Oxnard, CA2253E RL-A-LUPUS RFLX 3017009 $2.93 file
Dignity Health Oxnard, CA1206M RL-A-ANTI PHOS 3017157 $3.07 file